My birthday is coming up and celebrating is always a challenge because it coincides with the end of the academic year. Of course, I’d never allow a mountain of grading and paperwork to prevent me from celebrating, so here is what I have planned:
1. After uploading this post, I will drive to the airport to collect my sister who is coming from Montréal to celebrate with me.
2. Then we will buy a mountain of ethnic food at the “Russian” store in St. Louis.
3. Tomorrow, we will visit the salon for massages and pedicures, and then N is taking us out to a cool new restaurant.
4. On Sunday, we will have a small Birthday party with pro-Ukranian overtones. Basia is coming, and we will compensate ourselves for the suffering of last week’s party at the Putinoids’ place.
5. And on Monday, my sister and I will visit the only pretty street in St. Louis.
There is no grading scheduled here but I pointed out to the students that I never persecuted them for handing in stuff late, so now it’s their turn to extend me the same consideration. Students agreed.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Have fun with your sister, N, and your friend!
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We will!!! I hope you and I will be able to meet up in Montréal in early June!
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There is a pretty street in Saint Louis?
This is like saying there’s a part of Dallas/Fort Worth that isn’t covered in tarmac yet. 🙂
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“There is a pretty street in Saint Louis?”
ll take whatever I can. 🙂
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When local news programmes do the obligatory shot of the city as background for the presenters, do their production teams blur the cityscape a bit?
“Oh, look, the Beeb is broadcasting from Hell … I mean Hull … so they’ve blurred the cityscape so you won’t notice how squalid it is” … 🙂
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